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A civil war

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  • Delian League: Controlled by Athens… A naval power! VS. Aegean League: Controlled by Sparta…A military power!
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trouble brewing…

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  • Athens power increasing: controls trade routes of grain and other foods
  • Sparta threatened
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Sparta’s ultimatum

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  • 431 B.C.

- free all the cities under your control or face war

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war begins…

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  • Athens behind the city wall: did not want to fight Sparta on land
  • Sparta burned countryside
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Athens plague

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  • Pericles waits out Sparta… but plague hits

- 1 out of 4 people died… including Pericles

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deadlock

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  • death in most families
  • food scarce
  • Sparta burned countryside
  • labor short, slaves escaped from Sparta
  • Athens won sea battles
  • Sparta won land battles
  • Sparta gains an ally…
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Persians are back

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  • Persia helps Sparta with money for naval fleet

- Persia hoped city-states would destroy each other

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end is near

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  • Sparta gains control by not fighting: took Athenian boats left for supplies
  • Athens barricades themselves inside walls
  • Spartans but of supplies
  • Athens gives up 404 B.C.
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results of war

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  • 27 year war
  • cities and crops destroyed
  • economic and military power lost
  • democracy declines
  • united Greece over
  • Philip II of Macedon eyes Greece

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